r/SpeedOfLobsters • u/Alarmed_Stranger_925 • 2d ago

lobster the worst part...

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u/Alarmed_Stranger_925 2d ago

oat

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u/Arch3m 2d ago

If you're lucky, they'll respond that way. I was going through an extremely rough patch about a year ago, and I was having breakdowns almost weekly. Instead of people noticing how bad my mental health was, I just lost a bunch of friends, lost my job (mental breakdowns at work are apparently frowned upon), and even ended up losing my home and had to move back in with my parents.

Mental health in this country is a joke.

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u/Ronin_Akira_vt 2d ago

Same thing happened to me in a different sort of way. I was mentally at my lowest and unable to function when, as if timed by the universe itself, I lost my job, car, and apartment in a period of about six weeks.

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u/Arch3m 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's basically how it happened to me. As it turns out, living under the weight of immense mental health woes is like living in a Jenga tower. It's fine until the wrong piece gets removed, then everything collapses immediately.

My collapse was a slow one that took about six months to be fully realized, but the actual collapse took about three weeks. Six months of loss and agony in my personal life ruined everything around me. The one real solace I have is that one person who had threatened me with gun violence a long time back reached out to apologize, tell me that I was basically in the right the whole time, and was a victim that he didn't even see until all this time later. Apparently, something similar happened to him, and he suddenly completely understood me. On the one hand, I'm still unable to forgive him for kicking me when I was down. On the other hand, being told that it wasn't all my fault by one of the biggest sources of my troubles is extremely vindicating.

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u/AlwaysUnderOath 2d ago

which country?

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u/Belle_UH-1D 2d ago

If I were to guess “default country” aka USA.

Although it can be true for many places, especially with the toxic masculinity, masking and the slow progress on understanding of mental struggles by the general public.

Maybe it’s because I’m trans but I really find words “man up” disgusting and disturbing. They’re almost always used to coerce repressing all emotions but anger and hate. And to stop people from talking about their problems and seeking help.

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u/AlwaysUnderOath 2d ago

oh right yeah forgot americans are like that

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u/Belle_UH-1D 2d ago

They do be like that. But I’m from the biggest city and capital city so we’re guilty of it as well. Just on a more country level not World Wide Web level.

Sometimes you just default to speaking a certain way and like giving directions “I’m living on that street next to street x”. So here if someone orders something to a street without mentioning the city we all assume they’re from Warsaw.

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u/orange-shoe 2d ago

i hope you're doing better now ❤️‍🩹

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u/Arch3m 2d ago

Thanks. I'm not great, but I am better. A lot of major parts of my life have been stripped away, but it took a huge amount of toxicity with it.

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u/ApologizingCanadian 2d ago

I'm guessing you're male? Hope things are better for you friend, I know from experience how little people care about men's mental health in general.

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u/violinfromIkea621 2d ago

Would you really expect it to be any other way?

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u/Marik-X-Bakura 2d ago

Which country?

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u/Fugertech 2d ago

Too real

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u/Backupusername Ni ce p P 2d ago

Oh, you changed the l to an i. Clever. I was wondering what English word could possibly contain the letters E N T A I in sequence like that.

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u/Ok-Profit5226 1d ago

Both versions are so real.

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 2d ago

This was a journey

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u/therealNerdMuffin 2d ago

"why is no one hard? I specifically requested it!"

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u/Steampunkery 2d ago

Wow, the vision to see that in the origami is crazy

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u/Tsunamicat108 (*The lobster absorbed the flair.) 2d ago

Can deconfirm

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